[scikit-learn] GSoC 2017

[Jacob Schreiber]

Make sure that you tag your proposal with 'scikit-learn' when you submit it
so that we can identify them easily.

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Jacob Schreiber <jmschreiber91 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Less than 11 hours left in the application period! If you've asked for
> feedback and we haven't gotten back to you, make sure you submit anyway. If
> you don't get your submission in before the deadline (April 3rd, 9:00am
> PST) we won't be able to consider you.
>
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Jacob Schreiber <jmschreiber91 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Starting yesterday, students were able to submit their proposals on the
>> GSoC website. Please review this site
>> <https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn/wiki/Google-summer-of-code-(GSOC)-2017>
>> thoroughly before making a submission. We're eager to hear what prospective
>> students have in mind for a contribution to sklearn.
>>
>> As we've said before, mentor time is at a premium this year. If you've
>> posted a proposal and we haven't responded, please keep poking us. I know
>> that personally I tend to wake up to between 30-70 emails and have to
>> triage based on my availability, and that Gael likely scoffs at this small
>> number. Things fall through the cracks. If you haven't heard back that
>> doesn't mean we don't want your submission, please submit or ask for
>> feedback!
>>
>> A strong factor in determining if you're going to be chosen will be your
>> availability with the code and methods you'd like to work on. It is less
>> likely that we will take someone unfamiliar with the code base this year,
>> as there is a large starting cost to getting familiar with an intricate
>> code-base. In your application please emphasize your prior experience with
>> either sklearn code, cython code (if applicable for your project) or
>> machine learning code in general.
>>
>> Let us know if you have any other questions.
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>
>
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